The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1887-11-23
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.

GluSh Velvets ana Drocaued veIvetS are
seen in stylish wraps.
Felt is to be less stylish than beaver
plush for hats this season.
Patti has duplicate in paste of every
precious stone she possesses.
Some stylish house dresses have lace
in combination with fancy wools.
Tall hats of silk beaver plush are worn
by young ladies with their costumes.
Unique fashions in outer garments
were never more in favor than at present.
Sleeves tucked with inch wide tucks
are seen on little girls dresses of fine
work.
Long garments heavily braided are
among the most elegant Of this seasons
novelties.
The full puffed or mutton leg sleeves
are still very stylish on little girls fine
wooden costumes.
A pretty fashion has sprung up during
the past season of wearing the corsage
bouquet tucked into the velvet bodice.
Flowered fabrics bid fair to be gen
orally worn and are in woods, silks and
satins, all in beautiful designs and col
orings.
Angel sleeves are very generally seen
on the graceful long costume mantlcs
which are among the most stylish things
shown this season.
The Gretchen sleeve is more becoming
than the mutton leg and more artistic
and is very pretty on soft woolen mate
rials for house wear.
Belts being in vogue the belt buckle
is naturally thing of beauty and many
pretty designs are seen. Some of them
are beautifully jeweled.
There is fancy for large effects in
trimmings of costumes and velvet plush
and wide braids are used as panels with
marked contrast in colors.
Marie Augustin Despeissis, of London,
has patented a devise for creating a
regular and even draught through the
tubes and tiues of steam boilers.
There were lady doctors in Japan long
before the discovery of America. In III
Japanese nuns attended the sick and pre-
scribed for the Mikado himself.
Very low crowned bonnets have ap
peared at last, but it is safe to assert that
1t will take fully two seasons and per-
haps more to make them general.
Whole dresses of black or colored
Lyons velvets will be much worn this
winter, and the handsome new plushes
will also be used in the same way.
The polonaise is now made even more
graceful and becoming than ever, and is
by far the most hygienic of garments,
since no pressure comes on the waist.
Gloves of light gray and mastic kind,
with the seams Tapped, and finished
about the wrist with q strip of black
leather, and having several rows of black
stitching are quite the newest.
There is great variety in the sleeves
worn this season, and many styles are of
antique pattern, copying Oriental,
Turkish and Italian fashions as well as
those of the Elizabethan period.
Matching a suit entire from head to
foot-dress, wrap, hat, gloves, shoes and
stockings-is again to be the mode,
though considerable opposition has been
made against this expensive fashion.
The range of colors allowable in
taslor-made street costumes is somewhat
limited. 1t includes all the grays, Lon.
don smoke, three or four dark greens,
Gobeline blue, and new and peculiar
crimson.
Dress skirts now appearing have the
appearance of ungored, full gathered
skirts. They are, in fact, just that (the
front and sometimes the side breadths
being slightly gored), mounted on we'll
gored foundation skirts. .-.-.-
p Mrs. La Greer, Topeka's female law.
yer, has succeeded in building up good
paying practice. She is a tirst-rate
speaker and captures the average juror
without much effort. Mrs. La Greer is
abut thirtytive years of age and rather
good d-looking.
There is a fancy for making only that
sort of fancy work which is of a lasting
nature, since it has been found that it is
a waste of labor to make too elaborate
attempts on frail fabrics. Now the
handiwork must needs be lasting enough
for an heirloom.
The statistics of the accounts of Mont
Blanc show that siXty-one women in all /
made the ascent; English women, 80; |.
French women, Is; Russian women, L;
American women, g. Swiss women, 2; /
and Danish, Hungarian, Italian and
Austrian, one each.
UT Is 10 De q popular trimming 10 /
indoor and morning dresses. Chinchilla I
fur is also to be popular for trimming
gray velvet, with which it forms a grace
full contrast Bands of beaver or skunk !
form artistic trimmings for morning
dresses of pale blue or white cashmere.
The craze for Russian fashions which |
has been varying in France for year or
more is now at its height, and it is
reasonable to expect they will be seen
in America the coming season. The |
Russians delight in neck fabrics and gen
erous and flowing draperies, which taken
together cannot fail to produce pleasing